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Events on June 4

• 1745 Second Silesian War: At the Battle of Hohenfriedeberg, Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of Austria and Saxony.
• 1783 In Annonay, the Montgolfier brothers publicly present their first unmanned hot-air balloon.
• 1844 In the Silesian Owl Mountains, a weavers' uprising breaks out that will have a lasting impact on political life during the Vormärz.
• 1919 The US Senate ratifies the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. With its entry into force on August 18, 1920, women gain the right to vote in the United States.
• 1940 At the same time as the conclusion of Operation Dynamo, Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers a speech before the British House of Commons and then on the radio under the motto We Shall Fight on the Beaches. In it, he strengthens his nation's determination to defend itself against National Socialist Germany.
• 1961 ARD broadcasts Sportschau for the first time.
• 1980 Police and the BGS clear the “Republic of Free Wendland,” a village established by anti-nuclear power activists in the Lower Saxony district of Lüchow-Dannenberg.
• 1981 Construction of the Airbus A320, one of the most successful civilian aircraft in the decades around the turn of the millennium, is informally approved.
• 1989 As a result of the Round Table talks, the first free elections in Poland's postwar history take place.
• 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre: The Chinese leadership forcibly ends weeks of mass demonstrations by the democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Thousands of demonstrators are killed in the process.
• 1999 The American investment bank Bankers Trust is taken over by Deutsche Bank. Measured by the combined total assets, the world's largest bank to date is created.
• 2025 Lee Jae-myung is appointed President of the Republic of Korea and takes office.

Born on June 4

• 1859 Gustav Hartmann, German cab driver
• 1867 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland-Swedish military officer and politician
• 1877 Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist, Nobel laureate
• 1882 Karl Valentin, German comedian, cabaret artist, author and film producer
• 1952 Bronisław Komorowski, Polish politician, defense minister, Speaker of Parliament, president
• 1970 Izabella Scorupco, Polish actress and fashion model
• 1970 Kathrin Passig, German journalist and writer
• 1991 Lorenzo Insigne, Italian football player
• 2001 Philip Noah Schwarz, German actor
• 2002 Taliso Engel, German para swimmer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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